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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

This is awesome. It's such an unnecessary pain in the ass that more manufacturers don't support a greater array of codecs, containers, and formats.

Typically, the only makers who did support stuff were tiny never heard of companies- mostly from Asia, typically China. It was a stopgap solution, often trading build quality and refinement of features in exchange for playback ability.

This is a big deal for MS as Sony will almost certainly not be following suit, as they are in part a content / media creator, and have a stake in controlling how media and content is delivered or accessible.

OMG it works!!!!